Priceline
Online travel company within Booking Holdings, offering hotel, flight, car, cruise and package bookings worldwide via its proprietary deals technology.
Priceline is an online travel company and part of Booking Holdings. Its engineering work concentrates on a few defined technical areas: a proprietary deals and discount recommendation engine, travel search and booking technology, pricing and discount optimization, and dynamic packaging of vacation bundles. The Priceline Deals Engine, the firm's proprietary discount technology, is built to surface exclusive offers on travel inventory and operates across 116 countries.
The company's consumer-facing products cover hotels, flights, rental cars, cruises and vacation packages, spanning last-minute getaways and planned trips. Deals and savings are the organising principle across these categories, which places search, ranking and price-optimisation problems at the centre of its platform. Priceline has operated in online travel for over 25 years.
Geographically, its reach is global, with deals served in 116 countries. The stated mission is to make travel more accessible and affordable, and the company notes that its team members are travellers themselves, which informs how customer needs are understood. As part of the Booking Holdings family, it combines long tenure in online travel with the scale of a larger group.